The pro-abortion WeCount project of the Society of Family Planning has released a report stating abortions have continued to rise since Roe v. Wade was overturned, even in states that have expanded abortion restrictions. According to the report, there were 1.14 million abortions in the US in 2024, higher than both 2022 and 2023. The study also found that average number monthly abortions increased, rising from around 80,000 in 2022, to 88,000 in 2023, to 95,000 in 2024.

While the majority of abortions occurred in person, the number of abortions being facilitate by telehealth prescriptions, mainly abortion pills sent through the mail, to the point where now 1 in 4 abortions occurs through telehealth. That number has quintupled since the 5% that were procured from April to December of 2022. Researchers also noted that telehealth abortions had increased in states that had enacted six week bans and that it had increased “substantially” in states with total bans. The study noted that shield laws, which protect providers from legal action for providing abortion services to someone in a state that prohibits it. The study did note that it was calculating numbers based on pills sent, without data on whether the pills were actually used.

The pro-life group, Live Action, criticized the report. “WeCount’s June 2025 report showed higher overall abortions in 2024 than previous years, conflicting somewhat with an analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, which showed abortions nationwide were ‘stabilizing,’” the group noted. “#WeCount’s abortion total for 2024 is more than 9% higher that the estimated ‘1,038,100 clinician-provided abortions in states without total abortion bans in 2024’ that was reported by Guttmacher earlier this year. This is likely due to #WeCount’s estimated counts of abortion pills shipped into states with pro-life protections.”

The group Foundation to Abolish Abortion, however, has been critical of “pro-life laws.” Abortion abolitionists have often criticized so-called heartbeat bills and other abortion bans, claiming such bans only drive up the number of people getting abortions through abortion pills, meaning they never get an ultrasound, which could help change someone’s mind about going through an abortion. “We must not merely regulate methods of abortion like abortion mills or abortion pills. We must criminalize the act of abortion,” the group asserted. Abolitionists have been considered controversial amongst other members of the pro-life lobby for supporting charging women for murder for obtaining banned abortions. “Guns do not kill people. People kill people,” the group stated. “Abortion pills do not kill people. People kill people.”